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  • Morning Docket: 06.08.16
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 06.08.16

    * Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises that he won’t speak ill of Judge Gonzalo Curiel anymore, but it took a lot of heavy criticism from GOP leaders for him to come around to the idea of being civil. He now says his comments about Judge Curiel’s ability to remain impartial due to his Mexican heritage were “misconstrued.” [Washington Post]

    * You know you’ve screwed up when a judge accuses you of “egregious misconduct,” but you know you may have made the biggest mistake of your career when your “bad faith conduct” results in the voiding of a $200M patent infringement verdict. This in-house Merck patent prosecutor must be in a very bad place right now. [Big Law Business]

    * Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court has two weeks to respond to a complaint lodged by the state’s Judicial Inquiry Commission over his order that probate judges not issue same-sex marriage licenses. If found in violation of ethical rules, Moore could be removed from his position — for the second time. [Montgomery Advertiser]

    * Arlo Devlin-Brown, the head of the public corruption unit for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York since 2014, will be leaving office to head to private practice. After working to put Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos behind bars, he’s off to Covington & Burling, where he’ll be on the white-collar defense team. [New York Post]

    * “The concept of fair market value under Delaware law is not equivalent to the economic concept of fair market value.” Vice Chancellor Laster (Del. Ch.) made lawyers’ jaws drop when he overruled the market in the Dell case. Martin Lipton of Wachtell says more buyers may be tempted to walk away from deals now. [DealBook / New York Times]

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    Morning Docket: 03.28.13

    * Based on the justices’ reactions during oral arguments in Windsor v. U.S., there was no defending the Defense of Marriage Act. Not even the Paul Clement, the patron saint of conservative causes could save the day. [New York Times]

    * Alas, the David Boies and Ted Olson Dream Team stole much of the spotlight from Roberta Kaplan, the Paul Weiss partner who argued on behalf of Edith Windsor in an effort to overturn DOMA. Seriously, you go girl! [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]

    * Dude, you’re getting a Dell! Alston & Bird and Kirkland & Ellis are the latest firms to join the Biglaw sharks (including Ho-Love, Debevoise, Wachtell, SullCrom, and Simpson Thacher) circling this major tech buyout. [Am Law Daily]

    * It looks like it’s time for JPMorgan to face the music for its investments in Lehman Brothers, because a federal judge just ruled that the bank cannot “dispatch plaintiff’s claims to the waste bin.” [Reuters]

    * An alleged killer’s sense of mortality: James Holmes, the suspect in the Colorado movie theater shooting, offered to plead guilty and spend life in prison in order to avoid the death penalty. [CNN]

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